Jibreel built a track record as an entrepreneur and executive. He is the founder and CEO of Acutis Diagnostics, a New York-based bio-diagnostic firm that grew from a Long Island start-up to 250 staff and more than 5 million patients served, with over 30 proprietary diagnostic tests. Acutis Diagnostics has been well recognized as a New York bioscience success story and a contributor to the local economy. Before Acutis, Jibreel co-founded Capitas Group International, an international specialty finance joint venture with a multilateral bank, Islamic Development Bank, where, stationed overseas for five years, he helped forge public-private partnerships with sovereign funds and multinationals across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia with the mission to solve public sector challenges with private sector solutions. When Jibreel Sarij reflects on his journey, he often thinks back to a one-bedroom apartment in Elmhurst, Queens where his family of six lived for the first six years after they arrived as Afghan refugees. His father, trained as an engineer, landed a job as a social worker where he remained until his retirement. As a first-generation American and devout Muslim with Afghan heritage, Jibreel grew up well-aware of his differences from the norms of Wall Street and corporate America. At first, he believed he would succeed, as an aspiring businessman, in spite of those differences. But with time, he came to see that it was because of them that he thrived. His faith, his upbringing, and his cultural roots became sources of strength that taught him equity, resilience, boldness, and the conviction to respect and uplift others in every sphere of life. A graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Business Administration, Jibreel’s career has taken him to international work in France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, among other places. These experiences broadened his worldview, but also deepened his appreciation for the values that shaped his life and the country he calls home. They remind him that true success is not only measured in business milestones, but in the ability to build community and to honor the tireless work of volunteers and community leaders who preserve and strengthen the very opportunities that made his own journey in America possible.